aviv kruglanski and vahida ramujkic started collaborating in
2008 with the project realtime documentary embroidery.
both have a background in activism and in socially engaged
art, having previously formed part in art/activist collectives
(aviv- lasagencias, yomango, vahida- rotor). their practice is
based on a sustained presence in social and natural
environments such as neighbourhoods in mid-
transformation and periferal towns, where they engage
participants in experimental and poetic crafts, aiming to
create the conditions for qualitative transformation to
happen. after several years of practicing documentary
embroidery, it has recently been integrated in a new project,
microcultures (also with moshe robes). microcultures
investigates processes of fermentation; culinary, social and
economic. recently (again with moshe robes) they are
involved in starting up a new space for neighbourhood
based social art practices, "el centro de cultivos
contemporáneos del barrio"(2011 / with Aviv / feminist activist context / documentary
embroidery)22/02/2017view edit del

Born in Belgrade 1973. In early years of life tortured and exterminated dozens of ants and worms and something later she took part in beheading of an adder. She studied different ways to construct habitats in the trees and inside the houses. She also organised a fashion show for dolls, for the fall/winter season 1978/79. As a minor accededed to the various casinos on Costa azul and won prizes in cash and a pair of plastic sunglasess. In later years she crossed several european borders without official autorization.
(Barcelona / 2002 / Rotorrr)

Born in Yugoslavia, lived in Spain, returned to Serbia. Freelance artist, practitioner, designer, educator. One of the founders of Rotor Collective (Barcelona 2001-2007). In her work often collaborative she is looking for new methods and strategies for learning trough experience and creative practice balancing on the border between art, activism, design, social studies, politics, etc. She is the author of 5 books, took part in numerous exhibitions worldwide. Ongoing projects are “Disputed Histories”, “Documentary Embroidery” and “Microcultures”.
(2011 / 75 words)

born in yugoslavia, lived in spain, returned to serbia;from 2001 to 2006 closely collaborated with laia sadurni in rotor collective (barcelona) organizing urban expeditions trough the territories of ground, water and air (rotorrr.org);2006 completes works on book "schengen with ease", a text book for getting acquainted in bureaucratic procedures for regulation of foreigners status in european union;2006 founded a disputed history library, collecting history text-books from the ex yugoslav realm, organizing workshops where different historic narratives are analyzed and interpreted in new collage issues; 2007 initiates real time documentary embroidery project with aviv kruglanski, on going in different suburb areas;2011 initiates microcultures project with moshe robas and aviv kruglanski experimentating fermentation process in culinary, social and economic sense;doesn't believe but experiments.
(short, chronological / 2012)

Vahida Ramujkic (Belgrade, 1973), is an artist who base her practice in social context. Often through long term collaborative research her projects evolve in time taking different forms and formats: workshops, exhibitions, public interventions, public art, embroideries, magazines, books, songs, etc. Her ongoing works such as Documentary Embroidery, Microcultures and Disputed Histories deal with the questions of identity, representation and subjectivization in the current social and political system exploring the border between common/everyday practices and the normative ones. Her work has been mainly presented in the art and cultural contexts nationally and internationally, such are exhibitions, seminaries, festivals, etc., but also in different kinds of academic and non-academic contexts, seminaries, conferences, etc. She published books (Schengen with ease, Cairo Integration Diary, Storm, return Home and other terrible stories for children). She is one of the founders of the rotorrr.org collective (Barcelona 2001) and member of the irational.org. Her work Disputed Histories was awarded with the 1st prize on 52nd October Salon. http://www.irational.org/vahida/1008(conference participant / 2013)

Vahida Ramujkic practices art within a social context. In 2001 with Laia Sadurni she founds Rotor Collective in Barcelona. Till 2008 they realise series of long term projects such as: Poble NOW, AirAutonomy, Manual GPS, Telechronicles, etc. As part of art/research projects she publishes books ‘Schengen with ease' (2006), 'Cairo Integration Diary' (2008), ‘Storm, return home and other terrible stories for children’ (2009). In 2007, initiates ‘Disputed Histories’ project, a history textbook library and a series of workshops that compare and analyse contradicting historic narratives. In 2008 she initiates collaboration with Aviv Kruglanski with the Documentary Embroidery project that extends to other projects such as Neighborhood Superheroes (Cairo, Barcelona 2010) and Microcultures, in collaboration with microorganisms (also with Moshe Robes).
(2014, short)

Vahida was born in a country that no longer exists, in a mixed marriage and raised in communist manner. As young child, she spent days drawing with head to the floor that caused her bad eyesight on the left eye. Most of the time she spent in the garret of her grand parents fabricating dolls, their clothes and houses. With other kids from the neighborhood she built houses in trees, set up a base camp in the woods and staged great moments of the world history playing in mud and snow in the garden.In 2001 with Laia Sadurni she initiated the Rotor collective that will undertake a series of projects and explorations in the local area of Barcelona, examning the nature of global changes, developing “its own way” and methodologies, built on personal experience, play, intuition, improvisation.. They organised Safaries, uncharted explorations of Barcelonian neighbourhood Poblenow undergoing urban redevelopment and gentrification, Olimpyc Games in climbing public sculptures installed for the Barcelona 92 Olimpics, Festival on the city roofs, under the name AutonomiAereA, raft building out of descarted materials collected on construction-sites and further navigations, etc..Nowadays she is researching on the ways to narrate common histories transcending the national perspectives. In 2008 she formed a library Disputed Histories, comprised of history textbooks from the region, that serve as a basic material for further workshops where history is approached from non-professional and nonscientific standpoint, being the textbooks recycled into new collage booklets. With Aviv Kruglanski in 2008 she starts to develop a new-old technique for documenting reality that they call documentary embroidery, and promote it as the most efficient way of documenting reality, as it “creates less images in more time”. She authored a couple of books, of which the most important are “Schengen sin Esfuerzo”, a book that gives a more profound insight on the European immigration policies and the ways newcomers “navigate” it in practice, “Storm, Return home and other horrible stories for children”, where she collects and illustrates memories of her grandmother from her childhood and the war period, among others.. Work she is developing is also art often bordering with other disciplines, and also takes place in the are galleries apart from other kind of institutions and most of street. Among other users of Irational.org server a kind of art she is working within is comprised as non-representational.
(2014, upgraded version of 2009 unconventional bio)

Vahida was born in a country that no longer exists, in a mixed orthodox/muslim marriage raised in communist manner. Autistic as young child, she spent days drawing with head to the floor. Thats how she became blind on the left eye. At the age of 5 she received the first revelation of cosmic powers. Most of the time she spent in the garret of her grand parents fabricating dolls, their clothes and house. With other kids from the neighborhood she built houses in trees, set up a base camp in the woods and made things out of mud and snow from the garden.Nowdays she is researching transformation processes occurring in environment and society through physical and psychical recycling, building strategies for individuals to take control over their transformation. Methods she is applying are based on creating conditions for good things to happen, learning from her own experience, be guided by intuition.
(2009 / dramatic)